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1.  OS

AppleTV runs OS X 10.4.7

2.  Status

Installed:

• NitoTV?
• Perian
• ATVFiles?
• Sapphire
• VineVNC?
• XBMC
• Boxee

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/
mkdir PlugIns.disabled

3.  Ogg and Flac support

Need XiphQT? for ogg and flac support

• http://xiph.org/quicktime/

4.  Album Art

ATVFiles? looks for folder.jpg (or cover.jpg)

5.  DVD Cover Art

ATVFiles? looks for MOVIENAME.jpg

6.  Movie Stacking

• http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVFiles

(Linking part 1of2 and 2of2 together) ATVFiles? uses the following regex:

( [ _\\.-]+cd[ _\\.-]*([0-9a-d]+), [ _\\.-]+dvd[ _\\.-]*([0-9a-d]+), [ _\\.-]+part[ _\\.-]*([0-9a-d]+), ()([a-d])(\\....)$ )

Matches strings like " - cd1", " - part 1"

7.  Movie Metadata

• XML metadata script in perl

8.  Encoding

Handbrake AppleTV preset:

./handbrake -i "${DVD_DEVICE}" -L \
           -E aac+ac3 -B 160 -R 48 \
           -2 -e x264 -p -b 2500 -x bframes=3:ref=1:subme=5:me=umh:no-fast-pskip=1:trellis=2:cabac=0 \
           -f mp4 -o "${FINAL_TARGET}/${TITLE}.mp4"

9.  Bugs

• SMB mounted shares show wrong names for files with special characters

10.  Update to 2.1

• http://tutorialninjas.net/2007/03/26/hacking-the-apple-tv/
• Followed safe update instructions

10.1  Tools

Built from source:

• dmg2img
• poke
• prelink_tool

10.2  Patching updated kernel

• patch_kernel.sh

11.  Installing iTunes

• iTunes 7.5

12.  Vim

• Vim for OS X

13.  Factory Reset

2008-11-09 - Had to factory reset after problems with CoreVideo? and a botched copy of /System to /mnt/Scratch/System.

Now have a patchstick created by atv-usb-creator

1. Factory reset to 1.0
2. Patchsticked to add SSH
3. scp 2.1 update and osupdate to v2.1

   hastur$ scp osupdate 2Z694-5485-1.dmg appletv:
   appletv$ mkdir ~/Updates && mv 2Z694-5485-1.dmg ~/Updates
   appletv$ sudo ./osupdate
   

4. re-Patchstick
5. restore UserData? library
6. reinstall nitoTV Take Two

   $ wget http://nitosoft.com/nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip
   $ unzip nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip
   $ sudo ./installme
   

7. reinstall Perian, kextloader, smbfs
8. create SMB startup item

13.1  ToDo?

1. configure Boxee
   1. Index local media
   2. Auto-route hulu.com via Yuggoth
   3. Install iPlayer plugin

14.  Boxee Configuration

14.1  Network Sources

14.2  BBC iPlayer

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=289

$ wget http://xbmc-iplayer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xbmc-iplayer-plugin.zip
$ mkdir -p /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/plugins/video/iPlayer
$ unzip xbmc-iplayer-plugin.zip -d /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/plugins/video/iPlayer
$ vim ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/$PROFILE_NAME/sources.xml 
        <source>
            <name>iPlayer</name>
            <path>plugin://video/iPlayer/</path>
            <private>false</private>
        </source>
EOF

15.  XBMC Configuration

• Installed iPlayer plugin in /Users/frontrow/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC...
  • works, but slowly
• MythTV? plugin not working

16.  Subtitle Support

• Soft subs supported in 2.2 and 2.3 UI. (2.3 fixed display bugs)
• Mux ttxt to .m4v with MP4Box?, hexedit 's/text/sbtl'
• Can't update to 2.2 or 2.3 yet - Sapphire not yet updated.

17.  Accidental update to 2.3

17.1  Block Updates

sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts'

17.2  Add MountShares?

• http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mount_a_Remote_Drive_via_SMBFS
• Run my install/install.sh script

17.3  XBMC/Boxee manual update

wget http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/files/XBMCLauncher-0.6-debug.run
wget http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/svn/tags/xbmc-info/scripts/launcher-update-0.6.sh
sh launcher-update-0.6.sh XBMCLauncher-0.6-debug.run
wget http://dl.boxee.tv/boxee-0.9.4277.dmg
wget http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/svn/tags/boxee-info/scripts/alpha-0.9.4277_update.sh
sh alpha-0.9.4277_update.sh boxee-0.9.4277.dmg
sudo reboot

18.  Update to Take 3

• http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/AppleTV_OS_3.0

18.1  Create Patchstick

• Used atvusb-creator on win to create image
• dd using nixie

18.2  Update

• comment out mesu.apple.com in /etc/hosts
• update and reboot

18.3  Reinstall

• insert patchstick, reboot

Sapphire

wget http://appletv.nanopi.net/getFile/Sapphire_1.0b7.7.sh
chmod a+x ./Sapphire_1.0b7.7.sh
./Sapphire_1.0b7.7.sh

nitoTV

• Couldn't find the goddamn install file

wget http://nitosoft.com/nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip
cd nitoTV\ Take\ Three
sudo ./installme

• Install perian, mplayer, SmartInstaller?, Kextloader

Xiph codecs

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/xiph-qt/xiph-qt-decoders-0.1.9.dmg
hdid xiph-qt-decoders-0.1.9.dmg
sudo cp -R /Volumes/Xiph\ 0.1.9/XiphQT\ \(decoders\).component /Library/Components/
umount /Volumes/Xiph\ 0.1.9

19.  SNMP

• snmpd for OSX - compile from source
• Network.SNMP

20.  Hulu

• http://wiki.atvflash.com/index.php?title=VPN
• VPN or reroute via SSH tunnel
• Provide transparent connection for whole network.